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mobrien_12:
Had to reinstall XP on my boss' computer for the second time this year.  #**&$&% registry got corrupted and there were numerous filesystem errors on the supposedly bulletproof journaling NTFS.  It wouldn't even let me repair the system. It wanted to wipe the c:\windows directory and start from scratch,  erasing all the drivers and settings... for a corrupted registry!!!  I finally found an old registry backup and was able to repair the system.

"XP is stable"... well I sure havn't seen it.  Glad I use linux.

Bazoukas:
The last thing I wanna do is  troubleshoot for windows.


   I feel your pain.

 I laughed my ass of when at college a kid was doing AutoCad work and Win2k froze on him.

  He went CRAZY.

lazygamer:
WinXP is generally more stable from my personal experiences, but even I, without having months put into Linux, can tell that Linux is more stable.

I've noticed that I've gotten some dumbass crashes for no explainable reason while configuring certain things, but at least it doesn't take the system with it or fuck up the GUI etc.

hm_murdock:
the classic Mac OS, while relatively crash-happy, was still *more stable* than XP.

Remember, stability has more to do than just crashing. When the classic OS, or a UNIX goes down... you restart and continue on your way. With Windows, if it goes down, it might not get back on its feet.

Pantso:

quote:Originally posted by The Jimmy James:
the classic Mac OS, while relatively crash-happy, was still *more stable* than XP.

Remember, stability has more to do than just crashing. When the classic OS, or a UNIX goes down... you restart and continue on your way. With Windows, if it goes down, it might not get back on its feet.
--- End quote ---


And most of the times you don't have to restart in OS X or Linux or any other *NIX clone. You just press Command+Option+Esc in OS X or xkill in Linux and you force quit the program that crashed    while in windows you have to restart and keep your fingers crossed  

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